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Ignition control with time delay

During the Chinese New Year holiday we developed and built an ignition controller for the LuRoCa prototype. It works as following: Switch on - System reset (1 second) - Count from 0 to 9 (10 seconds to get away from the rocket car) - If 9 is reached, transistor output stage #1 ignites first rocket engine cluster (6 units) - After adjustable time delay transistor output stage #2 ignites second rocket engine cluster (4 units). To check if everything works properly, we made a short video:





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